LANDS CS NGILU STEPS ASIDE IN LINE WITH
PRESIDENT’S ORDER
Charity
Ngilu has stepped aside as the Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban
Development following the directive by the President Uhuru Kenyatta during
Thursday’s State of the Nation address.
A
statement from Presidential Strategic Communication Unit said the CS is
stepping aside for 60 days to pave way for an independent investigation into
allegation of corruption that was contained in a list that was forwarded to
President Kenyatta by Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission.
President
Uhuru Kenyatta has instructed Information, Communication and Technology Cabinet
Secretary Fred Matiang’i to act in her place.
Ngilu
joins her colleagues Felix Koskei (Agriculture CS), Michael Kamau
(Infrastructure and Transport CS), Davis Chirchir (Energy and Petroleum CS) and
Kazungu Kambi (Labour, Social Security and Services CS) who had step aside
after they were implicated in the confidential report by the Ethics and
Anti-Corruption Commission investigating graft had also complied with the
President’s directive.
President
Kenyatta on Thursday afternoon took the ‘bull of corruption’ by the horns and
directed all government officials mentioned in a confidential report by the
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to step aside pending investigations.
President
Kenyatta said in his State of the Nation address that he expected officials of
county governments and the Judiciary named in the report to also vacate office.
President
Kenyatta took the bold step of attaching the confidential report from the CEO
of the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission Halake Waqo as part of his annual
report on values to Parliament, urging Speakers of both Houses to ensure they
were put to good use.
He
gave the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko 60 days to ensure the
investigations were concluded, in a bid to fight corruption which has been
endemic.
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